"CorelSCSI for PD " 2.1 README Contents
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This document provides information you should know before
installing "CorelSCSI for PD" version 2.1. Last minute product
and device information is also documented.
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Table of Contents
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1. Upgrading to "CorelSCSI for PD" version 2.1
2. Installing ASPI Managers
3. Loading Corel's Device Drivers
4. Using Memory Managers
5. Using DOS SCANDISK and DBLSPACE
6. Tools for Windows
7. CorelCDX for Windows and DOS
8. DOSTOOLS for DOS
9. Using PC-DOS with DOS Utilities
10. Undocumented Commands
11. Support for Kodak Photo CDs
The following topics are provided in the README.HDW
file. These topics are relevant only if you're using
the named hardware:
12. Using Future Domain Host Adapters
13. Using the IBM ThinkPad SCSI Docking Stations
1. Upgrading to "CorelSCSI for PD" version 2.1
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If you're upgrading from CorelSCSI for DOS or Windows
version 1.2 or earlier, you must remove any system patches,
using the existing version of CorelSCSI, before installing
this software.
To remove a patch
1. At the command prompt, enter PATCH.
2. Select Remove Patch.
2. Installing ASPI Managers
----------------------------
For your convenience, this software includes the ASPI managers
for many host adapters, which you can install during the
installation.
If the ASPI manager for your card isn't provided with this
software, you must install the ASPI manager and load it in
your CONFIG.SYS file before installing this software. If you
have problems with any ASPI manager, contact the
manufacturer of your card.
This software provides the following ASPI managers:
Card Type ASPI Version File Name
--------- ------------ -------------
Corel Generic ASPI for 1.22c ASPIDRV.SYS
BusLogic and Adaptec
(154x, 164x) host adapters
Corel Generic ASPI for the 1.00a ASPIMED.SYS
Pro Audio Studio 16 card
Corel 'LS2000' ASPI Manager 1.10 ASPILS_D.SYS
Corel Generic ASPI for IBM 1.00a ASPIIBM.SYS
MCA host adapters
IBM 3550 ThinkPad Docking 1.00a ASPIIBM.SYS
Station ASPI Manager
IBM 3545 ThinkPad Docking 4.0 DCAM950.EXE
Station ASPI Manager 4.0 ASPIFCAM.SYS
IBM 16-Bit AT Fast SCSI 4.0 DCAM18XX.SYS
Adapter ASPI Manager 4.0 ASPIFCAM.SYS
Acculogic ASPI Interface 3.01.01 ASPICAM.SYS
Acculogic CAM driver 3.00.05 DOSCAM.SYS
Always 'AL-500' ASPI Manager 1.10 ASPILS_D.SYS
Always 'AL-1000' ASPI Manager 1.00 ASPISHT.SYS
Always 'AL-7000' ASPI Manager 837-13.13 AL7ASPI.SYS
Always 'IN-2000' ASPI Manager 461-12 ASPIDRVR.SYS
American Megatrends Fast Disk 1.1 ASPIKERN.SYS
DPT ASPI for SCSI BIOS 001.K DPTDDL.SYS
ROM\SMARTROM V.001.K
DPT ASPI for SCSI BIOS 002.B DPTDDL.SYS
ROM\SMARTROM V.002.B
DTC '3X80/3X50' ASPI Manager 1.5A ASPI3X80.SYS
New Media 'Visual Media' 2.03 ASPIMGR.SYS
ASPI Manager
New Media 'Bus Toaster' 1.00 BTASPI.SYS
ASPI Manager
P.E. Logic 'SCSI-Link EPP' 2.52 PWBSASPI.SYS
Host Adapter
P.E. Logic 'PEL-8xx Series 2.00 PEL800.SYS
8-bit' Host Adapter
P.E. Logic 'PEL-16xx Series 2.00 PEL1600.SYS
16-bit' Host Adapter
Procomp 'Pro-Val' 1.0a PVALASPI.SYS
ASPI Manager
Future Domain ASPI Manager 4.0 ASPIFCAM.SYS
(TMC-950) Future/CAM 8-Bit 4.0 DCAM950.EXE
Multi-tasking CAM driver
(TMC-18XX) Future/CAM 16-Bit 4.0 DCAM18XX.EXE
Multi- tasking CAM driver
(TMC-950)Future/CAM 8-Bit 4.0 MCAM950.SYS
Single tasking CAM driver
(TMC-18XX) Future/CAM 16-Bit 4.0 MCAM18XX.SYS
Single-tasking CAM driver
QLogic ASPI Manager 2.17 QLASPI.SYS
QLogic SCSI RAM BIOS 2.17 QL406DOS.SYS
CoComp 'SCSICable Plus' 2.602 WBSASPI.SYS
ASPI Manager
UltraStor 'Ultra 14F/34F' 2.03 USPI14.SYS
UltraStor 'Ultra 14N' 1.01 USPI14N.SYS
UltraStor 'Ultra 24FA' 2.02 USPI24.SYS
NOTE: To help distinguish between the revisions of the DPT
ASPI managers, which both use the name DPTDDL.SYS, two
different file names are used. However, the installation
renames the selected ASPI manager to DPTDDL.SYS.
The DPT ASPI for SCSI BIOS ROM\SMARTROM Version:
* V.001.K is in the file DPTDDL1K.SYS
* V.002.B is in the file DPTDDL2B.SYS
To install an ASPI manager that isn't provided with this
software
1) Copy the ASPI manager from the disk provided with your
SCSI card to your hard drive.
2) Add the device driver line to the CONFIG.SYS file using
the following syntax:
DEVICE=C:\xxxx.SYS
where xxxx indicates the name of your ASPI manager.
3) Reboot the system before you start the installation.
While the system is rebooting, you should look for
status messages from the ASPI manager. If the status
indicates an unsuccessful installation, the device driver
won't function.
3. Loading Device Drivers
--------------------------
During the installation, you're prompted to choose whether
to load the Corel CD-ROM and rewritable device driver into
high memory. If you choose this option and not enough memory
is available, the drivers won't load.
To correct this problem, edit the CONFIG.SYS file. For each
device driver command, replace the DEVICEHIGH keyword with
DEVICE.
4. Using Memory Managers
-------------------------
If you're using a memory manager, you may need to uninstall
it before installing this software and then reinstall the
memory manager. In rare cases, systems may hang if this
software is installed while a memory manager is loaded.
5. Using DOS SCANDISK and DBLSPACE
-----------------------------------
Don't compress media you plan to use with Corel's SCSI
utilities using DBLSPACE or other compressing tools.
Similarly, don't use the DOS SCANDISK command. This command
may display incorrect results about the media.
6. TOOLS (Windows)
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If you're using an IBM host adapter and its ASPI manager,
the information displayed by the Device Information command
is incorrect.
When formatting a hard disk that has previously been
formatted with multiple partitions, you should reboot when
the format is complete. DOS will let you access the original
logical partitions even though they no longer exist.
When you do diagnostic test on your PD System drive
and encounter any error, these errors should not be
thought of as hardware or media failures unless they occur
repeatedly while diagnostics is looping continuously.
7. CorelCDX (Windows and DOS)
------------------------------
To work with your CD-ROM drives, you require a CD-ROM
extensions program, such as CorelCDX, which interprets the
CD-ROM file system format. CorelCDX also provides several
types of caches, including a path table, directory, and data
cache. These caches are discussed in detail in the Users'
Manual. As an extension to CorelCDX, CDXCACHE provides an
extended memory data cache.
CDXCACHE, if enabled, is loaded at the same time as
CorelCDX. This cache stores information recently read from
CD-ROM drives in extended memory. When information requested
by an application is located in the cache, the information
can be accessed more quickly than re-reading the information
from the drive.
CDXCACHE uses a least recently used (LRU) algorithm:
frequently used data remains in the cache and infrequently
used data is discarded from the cache. CDXCACHE works best
with database type applications, which repeatedly read
information from the same areas of a CD.
CDXCACHE can cache the first 16 CD-ROM drives connected to
your system. The cache page size affects the maximum
cacheable sector address.
The following CDXCACHE options may appear in the CorelCDX
section of the CRLSCSI.INI file:
* XMSSIZE indicates the cache size in kilobytes. You can
set XMSSIZE to 0 to disable the XMS cache. Note that
the number of tracks created on a CD by CDCOPY is
affected by the amount of available XMS memory, you
should disable the extended XMS cache when using
CDCOPY.
You can set XMSSIZE to -1 to use a default cache size,
which is equal to one-quarter of the free XMS memory.
You can also set XMSSIZE to a specific size from 64K
to 16384K.
* XMSPAGE configures the number of sectors per cache
page, which determines the read-ahead operations. The
value of 4 is recommended for smaller cache sizes;
it's more important to cache separate disk reads than
to perform read aheads. Use the value 8 for larger
cache sizes; more data is stored in one operation. The
default setting is 4 sectors per cache page.
* XMSBLOCK represents the maximum size of read request
in sectors that will be cached. The cache performance
may benefit from larger values. However, the cache may
fill up more quickly. The default setting is 4
sectors.
Both CDXCACHE and Microsoft's SmartDrive program use
extended memory caching. If you're using SmartDrive version
5.0, provided with MS-DOS 6.2, you can use SmartDrive rather
than CDXCACHE. However, CDXCACHE has smaller overhead and
operates faster then SmartDrive.
SMARTDRV.EXE 5.0 is designed to work exclusively with
Microsoft's MSCDEX CD-ROM driver. However, Corel's
PATCH_SD.COM modifies SMARTDRV.EXE to recognize CorelCDX as
a valid CD-ROM driver.
PATCH_SD creates a copy of the existing SMARTDRV.EXE program
and stores the copy as SMARTDRV.MSC. If you've made changes
to SMARTDRV.EXE version 5.0 that change its size, such as
compressing the file, from 45145 bytes, PATCH_SD won't work.
To modify SmartDrive to recognize CorelCDX
1) At the command prompt, enter PATCH_SD.
2) Check your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to ensure that CorelCDX is
loaded before SmartDrive; otherwise, SmartDrive won't
find, and therefore cache, CD-ROM drives. Since
SmartDrive is loaded after CorelCDX, you can't use the
CorelCDX /UNLOAD command.
3) Use the CorelCDX section of Configuration to set the XMS
Cache Size option to Disable. The CDXCACHE is enabled,
by default. If you don't disable the cache, both
CDXCACHE and SmartDrive will cache data, using twice
the necessary amount of extended memory.
4) Reboot your system to reinstall SMARTDRV.EXE.
Miscellaneous Information:
If you're using DOS 5.0, Norton Shell 6.0, and CDXCACHE,
Windows won't run. Remove or upgrade any one of the three
programs to resolve this problem.
If you run CDSESN, CD-ROM caching software, including
CorelCDX/CDXCACHE, will flush any cached data for the
specified drive even if the currently selected session is
not changed.
The DRIVERNAME option of the CRLSCSI.INI file provides the
required name of the CD-ROM device driver, which should be
the same as the value of the DRIVERNAME option in the [CD-
ROM Drivers] section of this file. CD-ROM device drivers are
numbered starting from MSCD001.
If CorelCDX can't find driver names in the CRLSCSI.INI file
or if the CRLSCSI.INI file is missing, CorelCDX will try to
locate and initialize the CD-ROM device drivers named, by
default, 'MSCD001' and 'MSCD099'.
8. DOSTOOLS (DOS)
------------------
If you're using an IBM host adapter and its ASPI manager,
the information displayed by the Device Information command
is incorrect.
When formatting a hard disk that has previously been
formatted with multiple partitions, you should reboot when
the format is complete. MS-DOS will let you access the
original logical partitions even though they no longer
exist.
When you do diagnostic test on the PD System drive
and encounter any error, these errors should not be
thought of as hardware or media failures unless they occur
repeatedly while diagnostics is looping continuously.
DOSTools reports a fixed disk as containing removable
media.
With MS-DOS version 6.0, DOSTools will hang when you try
to format any media. This problem doesn't occur in MS-DOS
version 6.2. The MS-DOS upgrade is available electronically,
without charge, or from retailers for a nominal fee.
9. Using PC-DOS with Corel's DOS Utilities
-------------------------------------------
If you're using PC-DOS version 5.0/V in Kanji mode, you must
switch to US mode before using the DOS utilities; otherwise,
the utilities won't run.
To switch to US mode, enter the following at the command
prompt:
CHEV US /f
10. Undocumented Commands
--------------------------
The following commands are not documented in the Users' Manual:
SS
Displays a menu from which you can select a host adapter.
This utility scans the selected host adapter and lists the
SCSI devices detected.
11. Support for Kodak Photo CDs
--------------------------------
The CD-ROM device driver, which is named CUNI_ASP.SYS
currently supports Kodak Photo CDs including multi-session
type.
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.